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by brudgers 3732 days ago
1. One of the critical roles of a fitness instructor is technique. Not being able to correct it is a hazard.

2. There's no clear value for a fitness instructor. Selling phone workouts for $0.99 in the app store is unlikely to be as profitable as 20 regular clients paying $50/week for personal attention.

Ultimately, fitness instructors provide personal services. A few outliers, e.g. Richard Simmons, can brand and sell in bulk as celebrities. But most have to focus on client relations and high touch sales.

Good luck.

1 comments

Interesting. Perhaps the focus should there by be on the service and not merely the content. Good feedback - thanks.
I suggest talking to prospective users rather than people whose larger passions include typing text into boxes. No matter how much I project my mental model of my sister and brother-in-law [they are into the physical culture] into my response, it's just my mental model.